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The Coldest Game — is the game real?
I was just watching this Netflix movie while I was writing. Being kind of chess fans, this movie involved with spy story around chess game. I wonder they are actually a real game in the movie but I couldn’t find any historical data out of the Soviet champion Alexander Gavrylov and either with Mansky. The only one I kind of remember US vs Soviet was Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. Anyway, I keep watching and wondering the chess pieces were actually correct and did he really had a winning move?
As in the movie said, this is right after Rook g6-g3 exchange with the Bishop, then h2-g3 Pawn takes Rook.
Following up with Rook d8-d2 attacking the b2 Pawn. Then white Knight c3-a4 protecting b2 Pawn and attacking b6 Bishop at the same time. This actually makes a lot of sense.
The following one is really an unexpected blunder move. Rook d2-b2 take the protected Pawn. And of course, following up by Knight a4-b2 taking Rook.
If this is a 1-minute game then I would expect the player is making a mistake but in an actual championship this Rook is really poisoning following up by Pawn c4-c3 and Knight couldn’t really go anywhere.
- If Knight d1 leads to Pawn push c3-c2 and Queen after.
- If Knight d3 leads to Pawn push c5–c4 check. Rook takes Pawn to take d3 and also end up getting a queen for sure after
